Knowledge Representation in Planning: A PDDL to OCLh Translation

  • Authors:
  • R. M. Simpson;T. L. McCluskey;D. Liu;D. E. Kitchin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ISMIS '00 Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Recent successful applications of AI planning technology have highlighted the knowledge engineering of planning domain models as an important research area. We describe an implemented translation algorithm between two languages used in planning representation: PDDL, a language used for communication of example domains between research groups, and OCLh, a language developed specifically for planning domain modelling. The algorithm is being used as part of OCLh's tool support to import models expressed in PDDL to OCLh's environment. Here we outline the translation algorithm, and discuss the issues that it uncovers. Although the tool performs reasonably well when its output is measured against hand-crafted OCLh, it results in only partially specified models. Analyis of the translation results shows that this is because many natural assumptions about domains are not captured in the PDDL encodings.